When facing a tough decision, it pays to trust your gut. | Continue reading
Advancing space travel generally involves building more powerful and efficient engines for space vehicles like rockets or shuttles. But what if instead of an individual spacecraft, you took our whole solar system on a ride through the galaxy by moving the sun? Such is the not-too … | Continue reading
A growing body of research suggests that the "clinical pessimism" over treating psychopathy is unwarranted. | Continue reading
A long-ridiculed theory about humankind's early leap of consciousness is revived. | Continue reading
Beyond the microchip lies quantum computing. Beyond that lies quark-scale computing, made from materials a billion billion billion times smaller than the current computational scale. | Continue reading
A new paper suggests that the mysterious X17 subatomic particle is indicative of a fifth force of nature. | Continue reading
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It's important to challenge "good enough" explanations. | Continue reading
When the protection of academic freedom is compromised, scholarship and greater society suffer the effects. | Continue reading
Maybe it's time to show this report your employer? | Continue reading
In 1930, a year into the Great Depression, John Maynard Keynes sat down to write about the economic possibilities of his grandchildren. | Continue reading
Physicist plans to karate-chop them with super-fast blasts of light. | Continue reading
After a comprehensive study, researchers came to a startling conclusion. | Continue reading
The under-recognized condition affects workers in offices across the globe. | Continue reading
Philosopher Nick Bostrom's "singleton hypothesis" predicts the future of human societies. | Continue reading
As the American loneliness epidemic reaches alarming new heights, one artist theorizes on what connection might look like in the future. | Continue reading
Bernardo Kastrup proposes a new ontology he calls “idealism” built on panpsychism, the idea that everything in the universe contains consciousness. He solves problems with this philosophy by adding a new suggestion: The universal mind has dissociative identity disorder. | Continue reading
According to recent papers by Zucman, and his colleague Emmanuel Saez, one should be implemented. | Continue reading
Creativity is more than finding new solutions to abstract problems presented in laboratory settings, and a new study out of Northwestern University is one of the first to measure what qualities correlate with creative achievement in the real world. | Continue reading
How do you develop the next big idea? You pull together people who are both curious and passionate. | Continue reading
Scientists find that bursts of gamma rays may exceed the speed of light and cause time-reversibility. | Continue reading
So much for rest in peace. | Continue reading
A new paradigm for machine vision has just been demonstrated. | Continue reading
Scientific advancement is more than a series of experiments: it is often a debate among scientists with fundamentally different points of view. Niels Bohr knew this firsthand thanks to Einstein. | Continue reading
How the half-hour commute and motorised transport changed our cities into huge metropolises. | Continue reading
A scientist in Sweden makes a controversial presentation at a future of food conference. | Continue reading
While nobody wants to die, Emanuel believes that the alternative, degeneration, is worse: "living too long is also a loss," he states in his original essay. For a great deal of Americans these kinds of disabilities and loss of health severely limits what they can do and accomplis … | Continue reading
Using a new process, a mini-brain develops retinal cells. | Continue reading
Its landslides have killed locals before. | Continue reading
Since the idea of locality is dead, space itself may not be an aloof vacuum: Something welds things together, even at great distances. | Continue reading
Did a poorly understood ancient civilization somersault over charging bulls? | Continue reading
How the story of a statistics student being late to class became the inspiration for the protagonist of Good Will Hunting. | Continue reading
Scientists make an important discovery for the future of computing. | Continue reading
Rote memorization doesn't cut it for theoretical physicist Michio Kaku. Here's why. | Continue reading
Erik Verlinde has been compared to Einstein for completely rethinking the nature of gravity. | Continue reading
The idea that we can't perceive objective reality in totality isn't new. We know everyone comes installed with cognitive biases and ego defense mechanisms. Our senses can be tricked by mirages and magicians. And for every person who sees a duck, another sees a rabbit.But Hoffman' … | Continue reading
What is reality and how do we know? For many the answer is simple: What you see — hear, feel, touch, and taste — is what you get.Your skin feels warm on a summer day because the sun exists. That apple you just tasted sweet and that left juices on your fingers, it must have existe … | Continue reading
Russia's state-owned nuclear corporation Rosatom denies the allegations. | Continue reading
The company's protein powder, "Solein," is similar in form and taste to wheat flour. | Continue reading
The Portal promises to be a deep dive into the possible. | Continue reading
It's a big, bold plan. | Continue reading
The Glen McLaughlin Collection brings together more than 700 historical examples of 'California as an island' | Continue reading
Geneticist Qiang Qiu and his team, from the Northwestern Polytechnical University in Xi'an, China started their research by mapping out the genes active in 16 live tissue samples from goats, sheep, and deer. Qiu and the research team found that genes responsible for bone formatio … | Continue reading
Could 16 Psyche make every person on Earth a billionaire? The space mining race is heating up. | Continue reading